News Release
New
SG Navigator™ Speeds and Enhances Implementation of
the Stage-Gate® Process
ANCASTER,
ONTARIO, CANADA – NOVEMBER 13, 2002 -- Companies
looking to make improvements in new product development
(NPD) now
have the opportunity to jump start their Stage-Gate®
processes using SG
Navigator™, a new tool just released by
Stage-Gate®, Inc.
Developed
by Dr. Robert G. Cooper, the inventor of the Stage-Gate® process, and Dr. Scott J. Edgett, SG
Navigator™ uses the knowledge of two recognized
world experts, includes more than 20 years of best practice
research and has features key to implementing successful
NPD processes.
“Rather
than creating a process from scratch, organizations
can
use SG
Navigator™
to provide them with all that is required to implement
an NPD process – and it is based on some of the
most extensive and respected best-practice research there
is,”
said Barbara M. Pitts, COO of Stage-Gate®
Inc.
SG
Navigator™ includes Cooper’s and Edgett’s
Critical Success Factors, a break-through discovery in NPD.
And it contains best-in-class gate keeping, complete activity
descriptions for the stages and gates, numerous templates
and checklists, and definitions of team members’ roles
and responsibilities.
SG
Navigator™ eliminates weeks of in-house
design work,” explained Pitts. “Many organizations
have tried themselves to develop NPD processes based on
best practices, only to discover that our tool could have
given them the complete package from the very start.
“Other
organizations are purchasing SG
Navigator™ after recognizing that their
processes lacked several components and nuances critical
in best-practices processes – and this after investing
many hours of already-scarce resources.”
One
of SG Navigator’s™
best features is that it lends itself to being customized.
Organizations can integrate components of their current
practices into their newStage-Gate® Processes using SG Navigator™.
"So,
they don't have to discard anything that already works well;
instead, they optimize their process through the SG
Navigator™ solution," concluded Pitts.
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